Located in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya, AMP Studios Nairobi is a state-of-the-art facility designed to meet the needs of today's creatives. Our team of experienced engineers, producers, and technicians are dedicated to helping you achieve your artistic vision, whether you're recording an album, producing a podcast, or shooting a film.
Our studio is fully equipped with top-of-the-line gear from industry leaders like Neumann, SSL, and Pro Tools, ensuring that your work sounds as good as it looks. We offer a wide range of services, including recording, mixing, mastering, voiceover work, and video production, all tailored to meet your specific needs.
Our Story
Founded in 2017 and opened to the public at the end of 2018, Amp Studios was the conceptualisation of British producer/engineer Nick Loder. Nick had been working on projects in Nairobi previously and saw that many talented artists, producers and content creators didn't have access to great and affordable studio facilities. The studio was designed in collaboration with the renowned Australian acoustician John L Sayers, but Amp Studios isn't a typical recording studio. The live room features a full lighting grid as well as video lines to the control room switcher which allows live multi camera productions just like a TV studio (but with better sound!).
The Design
The studio was built inside an office unit shell using timber frame wall studs and gypsum and fabric frame walls. The shell is fully isolated from the exterior walls (room within a room) which provides superior sound isolation. Visibility between the different rooms was achieved using large sheets of DGU glass in the sliding doors so that the engineer can see into a separate recording booth as well as the larger live room. The air conditioning system was designed using silencer boxes that prevent fan noise from entering the room, and keep the air speed low so you can cannot hear the air entering the room. The control room designed has splayed side walls which prevent reflections from the speakers being audible from the mix position whilst slot resonators diffuse sound above particular frequencies to keep the room relatively lively but also accurate in frequency response. The attention to detail in design and construction make for an awesome experience that must also be heard to be believed.
Amp Creative
The Amp Studios creative community has grown over the years into a team of like minded and highly skilled creators, producers, artists , directors and writers. We believe a creative ecosystem of talent in which everyone can thrive helps to grow the industry as well as provide our clients with the best talent pool for their projects.
Amp creative is not you regular production company or digital agency. Our creative output is wide ranging from music to video, advertising and copywriting, podcasting, social media content and much more. We understand that every project is different and often needs a carefully selected team of professionals to achieve the desired outcome. That is why we combine our in house team with a wide range of highly talented freelancers to create the very best. We're passionate about helping you bring your creative vision to life.
Amp Academy
Amp academy is the training and educational department at amp studios. Utilising our collective experience and unrivalled expertise we offer training courses to corporates and institutions and will soon be offering training courses for the general public. We have run courses at Kenya's largest broadcaster Royal Media services as well done targeted learning projects for institutions such as German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). Our aim is to raise the bar of expertise and quality within the East African production space.
Our Clients
Amp Creative
Our production team can handle projects ranging from Music and mixing to voiceover, advertising, copywriting and scripting, TVCs, Documentary, post production mixing, editing and colour grading, podcasts and any type of visual content.
Amp Academy
We run customised training programmes in audio and visual production in partnership with corporates and schools.
